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BOSTON – Fisheries around the world are likely to come under increasing pressure from climate change. But effective, cooperative management approaches can blunt the projected impacts on both fish stocks and on the billions of people who depend on them – and in some cases even improve the health of...

News_0128_ImplicitBias_full1.jpg During an Annual Meeting session, experts discussed the impacts of implicit bias on diversity in university STEM programs. | Ashley Gilleland/AAAS Several research universities are leveraging targeted programs and data analysis to improve the representation and...

Children experienced science first-hand through hands-on experiments and demonstrations during the Annual Meeting’s Family Science Days. | Carla Schaffer/AAAS BOSTON – Pharah Marcellus watched her seven-year-old daughter, Maya, bob excitedly around a micro-satellite display, one of more than 30...

Examples of “fake news,” such as a report that Pope Francis had endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, are the equivalent of a bad cold in the body politic, says Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale University. But much more troubling, he told a session of the 2017 AAAS...

The political climate in the United States has placed the legitimacy of science itself under a microscope and surfaced unusual hostility toward the scientific process, say researchers attending the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting.

Naomi Oreskes has a question for scientists that many have been asking themselves already: should they speak up on politically sensitive topics, or should they let the facts of their research speak for themselves? In her plenary address at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting, Oreskes said facts alone do...

News_0217_Vocab_full.jpg During an Annual Meeting session, experts discussed their efforts to increase the number of words heard by children in low-income households. | Ashley Gilleland/AAAS BOSTON — Efforts to close the word gap — the vast difference in the number of words heard by children from...

These are uncertain times for government support of scientific research, even as the role of science in informing policy has never been more important. That was the core message that emerged from a wide-ranging session at the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting on the prospects for science policy under the...

News_0217_Robot_full.jpg Researchers discussed the potential of robots to serve as coaches and companions to the elderly, during an Annual Meeting session. | USC Viterbi School of Engineering Even as robots are increasingly able to drive our cars, clean our homes and help us care for our children...

Scientists are testing methods ranging from selective insecticide spraying to intelligent robotic traps to curb disease-carrying mosquitoes by harnessing the power of data collection and targeted interventions, according to a presentation at the AAAS annual meeting.